How you can

Heal the Bay

Aquarium

Today's blogger is Wyatt Miller, public educator at Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
People often ask me how I get the energy to run kids’ birthday parties every weekend. I usually answer, “With three cups of coffee.” But in all hones…

Today's blogger is Vicki Wawerchak, director at Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
March 1, 2012 marks the nine-year anniversary of Heal the Bay's management of the current Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. As staff celebrates the many change…

Thank you to all those who entered Heal the Bay's Cirque du Soleil drawing to win a pair of tickets to OVO at the Santa Monica Pier. The final pair of tickets will be given away for the following OVO performance:

Today's blogger is staffer Jose Bacallao, senior aquarist at Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
Winter can be brutal in So Cal. I know all the East Coast transplants in L.A. are rolling their eyes right now - but it's wet, cold and windy here…

We collected a sample of water off the Santa Monica Pier today, and got a bit of a surprise. Instead of the blue-gray water that we usually collect, a rusty, brownish-red liquid filled the collection jar. Welcome back red tide!
Aquarium staff has be…

Editor’s Note: This is the third installment of Santa Monica Pier Aquarium Director Vicki Wawerchak’s account of preparing harbor seal and sea lion skulls to become artifacts on display at the Aquarium. (Read Parts One and Two)

Today's blogger is staffer Vicki Wawerchak, the director of Heal the Bay's Santa Monica Pier Aquarium.
The anxiety of moving is enough to give anyone an ulcer, but try moving a live animal -- that will give you an ulcer and gray hair too. Yesterday w…